[ILUG] Re: Decoding fortunes

From: Paul Mc Auley (pmcauley at domain iol.ie)
Date: Sat 27 May 2000 - 18:04:45 IST

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On Sat, 27 May 2000 20:20:25 +0100 (IST) Ross Lynch wrote:

| use the caeser program. it decryptes rot13. should be in /usr/games

| try cat fortunes-o|caeser|less

Eek! Upside down quoting, incorrect response and useless use of cat!

caesar takes a numeric argument and defaults to rot 0

Something a little more effective might be:
caesar 13 < filename | less
Paul

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